Feminist writing can deliberately target readers across class boundaries

Evidence

To reach a broader audience required the writing of work that was clear and concise, that could be read by readers who had never attended college or even finished high school. Imagining my mother as my ideal audience—the reader I most wanted to convert to feminist thinking—I cultivated a way of writing that could be understood by readers from diverse class backgrounds. — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 18

Categorization

• SEED: Angle: how choosing an audience as a concrete person shapes accessible theory-writing craft.
• XREF: connects to: hooks deliberately wrote accessible feminist theory for non-college readers; Scrutiny assumed working-class readers lacked cultural resources for resistance

Broader Connections

• hooks deliberately wrote accessible feminist theory for non-college readers #exemplifies (0.90)